Holy Scripture
1 Maccabees 5:1
A church father on this verse
“The nations are provoked when they see the work of the worship of God renewed, because both visible and invisible enemies, who gasp in the heat of envy against the progress of faith and virtues, grow angry, are tormented, and persecute the servants of God, wanting to reduce them to nothing when they see them desiring…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
1Now when the nations round about heard that the altar was built, and the sanctuary renewed as before, it displeased them very much.
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— 1 Maccabees 5:1 —
2Wherefore they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that was among them, and thereupon they began to slay and destroy the people.
3Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea at Akrabattene, because they besieged Israel: and he gave them a great overthrow, and abated their courage, and took their spoils.